FAMILY ALTAR MESSAGE PREACHED ON THURSDAY, 10TH OCTOBER 2019 AT UMUOJI, ANAMBRA STATE BY APOSTLE PETER ODOEMENA THE SON OF MAN THE FULLNESS OF THE GODHEAD
We were in bondage in all the denominations. We were in bondage in the Pentecostal. We were in bondage in the Anglican church. We were in bondage in Roman Catholic, in different churches and now we have a Leader. Be very careful the way you follow Him. For He will never forgive our transgression. BE VERY CAREFUL FOR HE IS A VERY SPIRITUAL MAN and one that will follow Him must follow Him spiritually. Did you get the Message? You know our Leader? THAT WAS THE MAN, THE MAN THAT PROPHET WILLIAM BRANHAM WAS LOOKING AT AND THE SAME MAN MOSES WAS LOOKING AT. He never failed them and He can never fail us. But we are mixed.
MIXED MULTITUDE PART 1; Preached on 3rd March 1993; Pg. 40 vs. 97 – 99
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THE MINISTERS SPOILED THE CONGREGATION
I say, if I tell you that THE SON OF MAN is having problems, headache, outside the Ministers, I say, I am a joker. The problems of Moses started with His ministers; True or false? It never started with the congregation.
2. The Ministers spoiled the congregation. Whatever problem Moses encountered started with the ministers. They were the people that spoiled the Camp. They biased the minds of the members of the Camp.
3. They made leadership impossible because they were not cooperating. They were not willing to go an inch further. They were wrestling against Moses within.
4. Moses thought they were together when they were fighting Moses in their hearts, fighting Moses in their homes, fighting the doctrines, kicking against every move.
5. And they went as far as spoiling the entire Congregation because by your conversation, your partner knows your stand.
6. In your families, now you are in your homes, no matter how you try to rigmarole it, members of your families know where you are heading to. I have seen the true picture of the whole families when we have not even taken off.
7. Let me say it that almost all of you have taken your families outside the faith of Christ. They are walking according to your faith not according to God’s Faith. The reason is this; their hearts are willing to obey the Word of God but you do not want them to obey.
8. You want them to obey you instead of obeying God, when you have not obeyed God for one day. And you are carrying your willful disobedience, transferring it into members of your family, trying to bend them to your side to see things the way you are seeing things, and not the way they are.
9. But God said, “Allow it the way it is. Even if you do not want to obey, leave it there. Do not ever cause any to disobey.” But you do not want to obey, and you do not want others to obey.
10. THERE CAN NEVER BE A MOVE WITHOUT FAMILIES. WHATEVER WE CALLED THE FAMILY OF GOD IS AN AGGREGATE MEMBERS OF ALL FAMILIES.
11. Since you do not want your families to obey because you are not obeying, why are you with us? Why are you giving the impression that you are in the move when you are frustrating every move? You are rebelling with every move, every statement, every instruction. For every teaching, you have your counter.
12. If I do not talk to you, who then will I talk to? This is because the salvation of your families are now in your hands.
13. We are living in a situation where people now prefer marriages to eternal life. They prefer work to eternal life. They prefer money to eternal life. Was it how God taught us?
14. So marriages have become gods. They place it first. Then God, secondary. So if God speaks and marriage speaks, they will take marriage and abandon God. If God speaks and work speaks, they will take work and abandon God.
15. If God speaks and money speaks, they will take money and abandon God. Brethren, true or false? You are witnesses against yourselves for God cannot accuse you falsely.
16. What you have been desiring, what you have been praying for, God at last handed it over to you and then decided to recoil to his family where God ordained Him the overseer.
17. He never ordained Me overseer over your family or over you. I am only interested in that my nuclear family made up of Myself, My wife, My biological children, My in-laws that married my daughters, and the Brethren living under my roof. Period!
18. For these are the only people that are now willing to listen to My Word and do it according to My Word. The rest have hardened up.
19. The reason why we behave as if we are old, we are tired, we are weak is because we find it difficult to go to the pulpit to preach what is against us, and the congregation knows that we are not obeying. Why going there to fool ourselves?
20. BEING IN THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH MEANS BEING IN THE REVIVAL THAT NEVER DIES DOWN. BUT WHEN YOU ARE TRYING TO CONCOCT SOMETHING OUTSIDE THE TRUTH, YOU MUST RUN SHORT OF INFORMATION.
21. And for that reason, going there means humiliating yourself, advertising your foolishness. Even if you go there to make noise, three minutes, you see Brethren rubbing their legs on the floor, sighing, murmuring, grumbling, in the flock.
22. This is because what is coming out is not motivating them. There is nothing cheering them up. You are only making noise. I am telling you that many families from now are going to die of suppression of feelings, for they cannot challenge their husbands.
23. Because of the nature of the Faith, they find it difficult even to raise their hands and say, “I disagree” because they may not know the awful consequences.
24. So, what I am seeing in the Camp is an uneasy calm. It is not a Godly calmness. It is an uneasy calm.
25. That is why when you look at their family members in the general congregation, when we gather together as a general assembly, you see them having joy. Joy radiates. They feel like not going again.
26. But when they get home, the gloominess automatically appears. This is because whatever they gathered must be erased in the home. Why must it be so?
27. Why milling around Me? For twenty-six good years you have milled around Me. What is that thing you want to find out from Me which you have not discovered? Tell Me and I will show you what it is now.
28. If there is anything you are investigating around Me for twenty-six years and you have not discovered it, why not believe that it does not exist? If you think it exists, it exists in your imagination. It is not real. It is your own imagination.
29. Why thinking that others are imagining that way? That was what destroyed Judas. Judas never knew he was alone until he was pushed out and nobody followed him, being a Bishop.
30. He thought, “if I should do it, maybe others will rejoice and follow me”, but when he left, he was shocked, not even a single soul followed him. Members of his family never followed him.
31. When he committed suicide, the wife never wept. Nobody mourned him, for they knew him to be the worst human being among the Brethren, although he was a bishop, an elder, a minister.
32. The wife knew him, the children knew him, for he was married with children and they were all in the same room, and they knew him as an unbeliever, a heathen.
33. That is why nobody heard the voice of the wife concerning the money he collected. For when he was having those illicit meetings, he never disclosed it to the family, but it was ripped open.
34. MANY THINGS WILL HAPPEN. I SAY, MANY THINGS WILL HAPPEN. Many things will happen. If you are not going to live a transparent life, there is no need deceiving yourself. Why milling around Me?
35. Who is milling around you? Who is monitoring you the way you are monitoring THE SON OF MAN? If everybody will monitor you for twenty-six years, what do you think they will discover?
36. Give us time to monitor you for one week, all round. We have a message preached by Nnamdi Ogbogu, “THEY WATCHED HIM”. Instead of believing Him, they were watching Him.
37. What were they looking for? Faults they will lay hands on and excuse themselves out when they were already out. They have not even come in for one day, yet they are holding offices.
38. Outside the seventy, there were still another two hundred and fifty who were parading themselves as ministers, but they were never in the move. Never, never. Not even one came up one day and raised his hand and said, “I disagree”. It was all happening in the heart.
39. Since you have left the Faith long ago, why are you milling around the Brethren? Why do you feast with them? Do you want to die? Do you want to die? I will give you nothing but your reward and your reward is nothing but what you have done. What you have done, within and without.
40. I am not saying I come quickly. I am here already. You were told, “Lo I come quickly and My reward is with Me, to reward every man, every woman according as his works, her works, shall be.” [Revelations 22:12]
41. So, I am not coming quickly. I have come. And I have arrived. I have come to stay. I have come to live.
42. So My reward is already with Me. I do not pray that the Father should help Me to reward you rightly because He is already in Me.
43. You know, there is one thing we do not know, though I have taught you. You are seeing a masquerade. From the masquerade, you cannot see the one wearing it, but the One wearing the mask is seeing you. If you run, He knows you. He will be laughing.
44. You are seeing THE SON OF MAN as a human being. Greater than THE SON OF MAN is seeing you through THE SON OF MAN.
45. There is a supernatural Being in Me now that is seeing all of you, seeing your hearts because He is a spirit you cannot behold with your eyes. He found it necessary to dwell in a man called Peter Odoemena. From there, He will be viewing the whole world.
46. I AM THE TEMPLE TEMPLING THE DEITY. I AM THE MASK MASKING THE DEITY. OUTSIDE I AM A HUMAN BEING. Holy-roller. OUTSIDE, I AM LIKE YOU, BUT INSIDE, INSIDE….
47. If I have not manifested Him before you, you might be thinking that it is a mere folk and that I am a joker. But I have manifested the Father before you. True or false?
48. I say, I have manifested the Father. I have shown you Who the Father is, that dwelleth in Me, that you may believe that I am the temple templing Him.
49. Did He reveal Himself from you? Did He reveal Himself from any other person? From that day till today, the world over, who has ever appeared manifesting the Father?
50. For the Father is the only one and true God. The only Eternal God, the Creator of the whole Universe, things that are visible and things that are invisible. There, the Lord of lords, the King of kings appeared.
51. That is what I manifested so that when you are having difficulties in believing My teachings which are not Mine but that of He that dwelleth in Me, for I speak when He wants Me to speak. I close My mouth because He wants Me to close My mouth.
52. That is why when you say you do not obey, you are not disobeying Me. You know Him who you are disobeying. When you are conspiring against yourselves, you know Him you are conspiring against.
53. You know when you are trying to bend yourselves not Him, for no human being can bend Him. He is an unbendable God. His judgment is perfect because he seeth beyond your imagination.
54. He seeth even the words in your mouth, the thoughts in your hearts and your secret dealings everywhere. You have no secret. Everything is open unto the eyes of the omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent, whom we are having dealings with.
55. So, you can escape from the eyes of your fellow human being, but from the prying eyes of the Almighty, who escapes? Then why fooling yourselves? Why fooling yourselves?
Unbelief is out from the Camp. Double-mindedness is out from the Camp and the Lord has descended to tell us the next stage of the Ministry and He is going to drop some people now. He is going to move in our midst in such a strange way that if you are tired about it, you can never believe it. You will be quoting, “William Branham said, ‘Fellowship will turn anyhow, shake them, embrace them.’” Be very careful. Understand the Prophet. …… I am not William Marrion Branham. I am not a Prophet. If the Lord never called you in My Ministry, you would have called Me a Prophet. If the Lord never revealed to you My Ministry, even before My confirmation, you would have called Me a Prophet now. I am not a Prophet. My Ministry may be prophetic, yet I am not a prophet……
MIXED MULTITUDE PART 1; Preached on 3rd March 1993; Pg. 41 vs. 103 – 104 & Pg. 90 vs. 21 – 23
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WHY ARE YOU FOOLING YOURSELVES? [1]
If there is no other Message I have for you this morning by way of encouraging you, it is the Message titled, “WHY ARE YOU FOOLING YOURSELVES?”
2. Why are you claiming that you are with Me when you are far away from Me? Why are you becoming obstacles to the Kingdom of Heaven for members of your family? All of you know your wickedness.
3. THE GREATEST FORM OF WICKEDNESS IN THE SIGHT OF GOD IS OPPOSING THE TRUTH THAT EMANATES FROM GOD. Simply because you cannot obey, you do not want anybody to obey.
4. For that reason, you will be placing sanctions upon sanctions. Who has ever worshipped God under sanction? Nobody has ever worshipped God rightly under sanctions. If God will give you sanction, can you obey it?
5. How do I know that you are a seed of God? Can sanction produce the best in you? It is when I remove sanction, your true nature will come out. I will know whether you need help or not.
6. I cannot use intimidation, threat, sanctions to produce the best in any man. Rather, I will be causing the individual to be making series of mistakes.
7. SO, LET US BE VERY CAREFUL AS MANY AS ARE STILL REMAINING AMONG YOU. MANY ARE GONE, BUT THEY ARE IN THE FELLOWSHIP. MANY ARE AT THE BRINK OF FALLING AWAY, BUT THEY ARE STILL IN THE FELLOWSHIP.
8. BUT A SCANTY NUMBER DRAWN FROM THE ELDERS. I SAY, SCANTY. THEY ARE IN THE MICROCOSM. I WILL NOT SAY THEY ARE ONE OR TWO, BUT THEY KNOW THEMSELVES. I KNOW THEM. IT IS NOT BY NOISE MAKING.
9. THERE IS NOTHING YOU CAN GIVE ME TO BRIBE ME, IF NOT OBEDIENCE TO THE TRUTH. IF YOU LIKE, I HAVE SAID IT, TIME WITHOUT NUMBER, EMPTY YOUR ACCOUNT INTO MY ACCOUNT, IT CAN NEVER GIVE YOU MY FAVOUR.
10. I MAY EVEN HATE YOU, ESPECIALLY WHEN I DISCOVER THAT YOUR MOTIVE IS WRONG; THAT YOU THINK THAT YOU CAN PURCHASE THE GIFT OF GOD WITH MONEY; I WILL HATE YOU WITH PERFECT HATRED.
11. That is why when your heart is not obeying, stop. Do not go further. Do not go further. And then, distance yourself from Me, because if you do not distance Me, coming closer means provoking Me.
12. This is because you are telling Me, if I am God which I am claiming to be, that I would have known what you have done. “If I am God as I am claiming to be, I should have known what you are thinking about me, and what you are doing.”
13. Are you not stupid? That God has allowed you to rethink, to talk to yourself, to ask yourself questions and see whether you can find a way to run back; and then you are asking God, you are telling God boldly, “If you are God, you should have known that I am just fooling you, that I am not with you. Who can believe this thing you are teaching?”
14. Hear Me very well. You are following traditions of men period. Some of them, your people established. Some, you decided to establish, outside Christ’s tradition. We have only but one single tradition in the Church of Christ.
15. That was why when they were trying to contend against the Gospel of Christ in the days of St. Paul, St Paul said, “Were you the first people that received God? Were you the first people God appeared to and spoke to? Why are contending you against the revealed truth?
16. IF ANYBODY IS CONTENDING, LET HIM KNOW, IN THE CHURCH OF CHRIST WORLDWIDE, WE HAVE NO OTHER TRADITION THAN THIS WHICH WE HAVE LAID DOWN. A confirmed and vindicated teaching. Does it require any interpretation? What type of interpretation are you going to give it?
17. Let there be light. And you see light manifesting. Let there be darkness. You see darkness. What are you interpreting again? I AM SAYING THAT THE WORD INTERPRETS THE WORD. AND THE MANIFESTATION IS THE INTERPRETATION.
18. You believe God does not exist, I have shown you that place. You do not know what Godhead is all about. I have manifested it.
19. You were wondering what the Cloud would look like to lead a people. I have manifested it. You were wondering how God could live in thick darkness. I have manifested it. You were wondering how God will live in a bright light. I have manifested it. You were wondering where there could be Lily in the valley (The name of God), I have manifested the Lily.
20. Tell Me. If you believe that the Spoken Word is the Original Seed; I have Spoken something into existence. I promised it and I told you what it would be in 1993. By 1996, I spoke it into existence. Before many witnesses, you saw the dove.
21. I told you it is a ministry of the dove without bile, not eagle. Eagle is end time. This is a dove. A quiet ministry, and not noise making ministry.
22. Tell Me, what else are you looking for? I say, when God has shown you visible signs through His Messenger and yet, to obey Allah is difficult, what else are you expecting from Him if not supreme humiliation?
23. He is sentencing you to eternal hell, for that is where your portion is. God is not the one that has apportioned you there.
24. If you read the book of Revelation, God disclosed to St. John. He said, “You, as a result of your rebellion and unbelief, go to the devil and suffer in hell which is meant for the devil and those that will follow him. You decided to follow the devil and that is your abode.”
25. Since you have decided to perish there, do you know that God spent a lot to mold a human being? And entrusted human beings into your custody. See how wicked you are. See how wicked human beings are.
26. You know you came alone. And the day you will die, you will die and go away. And you want to make sure that nothing from you will ever taste Paradise. Are you not a visible devil?
27. That is what the devil did. He vowed a vow that because he knows he is not going. The things of the world had already beclouded his mind, he vowed nobody will go in. When he discovered his mistakes, he wanted to repent, but no way. He vowed that everybody must follow that way.
28. Why do you want to die with innocent souls? Why are you spoiling people that have come out to worship God, simply because God entrusted them into your hands as a caretaker?
29. There is nobody here that owns a single child. You are only but a caretaker. If you think you own one, kill that one. Kill your child this morning. Kill your wife this morning. If your wife is your property, kill her.
30. You can set your car ablaze and nobody will take you to court. Bro Ojiakor can pull down this house and nobody will take him to court. But kill your wife. See your children. Kill one and see where you will land. You will be hanged to death.
31. Why must government show interest? I think it is your property. You have the right to do as you wish. You have the right to dash out this house if you want. Is it not true? But dash me one of them. See your children. Dash me one of them.
32. The community must surely query you. Your conscience must query you, Almighty God will query you. Even that child will also query you. But this house can never query you. The motor will not query you. This is because it is a living organism. It is a living being.
33. WHY ARE YOU FOOLING YOURSELVES? We have come of age. I say, we have come of age. Why are you claiming to be believing something you know that it is more than you. You have tried to line up, but no way.
34. I am not talking about knowing what it is. You know what it is. You can place it right before any human being but it has never taken effect in your life for one second. I say, one minute.
35. You have never for one day, from morning till night slept with the Word. It has never happened. If it has happened, all of you would have been like Me in all respect.
36. What gives Me sleepless nights will give you sleepless nights. Where my heart is fixed is where your hearts will be fixed. But instead of that, you are all moping at Me. Every step I take, you are looking at where I will land. So I am walking alone and you are only looking for where I will fall. That is the truth.
37. When you carry the sermon book, what you are trying to see is not what God is telling you but you want to see the unfulfilled promises so that you can rake it up,“If He is God, look at what He promised, has He done it?”
38. You are always telling members of your families reasons why they should not allow THE SON OF MAN to deceive them because to you, I am a deceiver. This is the truth.
39. Was Jesus not called a deceiver? All the prophets, were they not called deceivers? Who called them deceivers? Ministers!
40. If you do not call Him a deceiver, you will not present your own version which you warned that it should not be disclosed. It is locked inside your house. So in the congregation you believe with us, but at home, you have your belief. You have your belief.
41. And whatever you just lay down there, there is a sanction, “Keep it to yourself. Let nobody ever ask any question outside the house.”
42. But now they have started asking Me questions. I have started entertaining questions from your families. From now, I have seen what you have planted in less than one week.
43. Questions I never anticipated are now coming up, showing Me that you have made up your minds that wherever you are, there your family members will be.
44. If that was the decision of Lot, Lot would have perished. He would have waited for the wife who was not willing to make a step forward.
45. I CAN ONLY TELL MY FAMILY TO BE WHERE I AM IF I AM SURE I AM IN CHRIST, WRAPPED IN CHRIST, DOING HIS WILL.
46. BUT THE MOMENT I AM OPERATING OUTSIDE HIM AND I WANT ALL OF THEM TO BE LIKE ME, I AM LEADING THEM TO HELL. AND THAT IS THE HIGHEST FORM OF WICKEDNESS.
47. That is why William Branham said, “All of you must come to equal revelations to the point where if Madam does not want to go, she will say, “Master, go”. If the master does not want to go, he will say, “Madam go.” If that means divorce, carry your bag away, for there is no eternal life in marriage.
48. He said, “Children, the same way. Say goodbye to your parents. Go your way, for there are people that were born and they never saw their parents, and God made them great. YOUR GREATNESS IS NOT IN THE HANDS OF YOUR PARENTS BUT IN THE HAND OF THE ALMIGHTY.
49. By that message, He has liberated everybody. Like Jesus did. “If you want to follow Me”, He said, “Deny your father, your mother, your wife, your children, everything, your property. Deny also, yourself.” If you are not prepared to do that, you can never be a candidate for the Kingdom of Heaven.
50. THAT IS WHY, FOR YOU TO SURVIVE, GOD MUST SEE YOU AS A SELF-SACRIFICING WORSHIPPER. A SELF-SACRIFICING WORSHIPPER. That it can even cost you your life. You do not care.
51. But what I am seeing is just home-based worshippers. Domestic worshippers. That is exactly what I am seeing, if you watch both male and female.
52. Read the book of Hebrews chapter 11 or Foxes’ Book of martyrs, and see what happened there. Even recently, in our day, in Malawi, women stood gallantly for their faiths, and razor blades were used to shave off their long hairs from their heads. Only the president intervened.
53. They never recanted their faith. Their husbands were not mentioned for they all compromised. By faith, women regained the lives of their lost ones. Gallantly stood behind the Apostles. Have you wondered why?
All of you that are in this Church are the Seal of My Apostleship from the beginning, from the least to the greatest. Without this Gospel, none of you will be saved! That is why this Gospel should go to the whole parts of the world so as to set the captives free.
CHURCH ORDER; Preached on Tuesday 13th April 1993; Pg. 104 vs. 56
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TO WHOM DO YOU BELONG?
Give Me Bible, let us read from the Book of St. Luke chapter 8. from verse 4. Anybody that sees it should come to the center and read.
2. 4“One day he gave this illustration to a large crowd that was gathering to hear him—while many others were still on the way, coming from other towns.
3. 5“A farmer went out to his field to sow grain. As he scattered the seed on the ground, some of it fell on a footpath and was trampled on; and the birds came and ate it as it lay exposed.
4. 6Other seed fell on shallow soil with rock beneath. This seed began to grow, but soon withered and died for lack of moisture.
5. 7Other seed landed in thistle patches, and the young grain stalks were soon choked out.8Still other fell on fertile soil; this seed grew and produced a crop one hundred times as large as he had planted.”
6. (As he was giving this illustration he said, “If anyone has listening ears, use them now!”)” Amen.
7. This parable is no longer new which the kingdom of God is likened to. Is it a new thing? Is it a new thing? WHAT TYPE OF SOIL ARE YOU? WHAT TYPE OF SOIL ARE YOU?
8. This is because everybody is represented there. THOSE PEOPLE THAT HAD THAT FERTILE SOIL, MEN AND WOMEN, THEY WORSHIPPED GOD SELFLESSLY. THEY WORSHIPPED GOD SELFLESSLY. ALL OF THEM, MEN AND WOMEN ALIKE.
9. IT WAS ON THIS SELFLESS GROUND WHICH REPRESENTS A HUMAN BEING, THAT THEY WORSHIPPED GOD. A SELF-SACRIFICING WORSHIPPER.
10. If you go back to the same book of saint Luke, you will see what happened there, that women, with their own revelations defied mockery, defied ridicule, defied humiliation from the people around them due to misconception.
11. They totally devoted their lives, their services to the revealed Christ in their day, which was Jesus the Christ, though He was a bachelor.
12. These people that could work with a bachelor, married and unmarried, including Herod’s Chief Steward’s wife; Brethren, is it Bible? The same chapter 8 verse 1. I mean, let us face facts. Read it to their hearing.
13. I wanted to pick the soil first because the soil determines what it will produce. If the soil is a stony soil, you expect nothing there. If it is one that is not fertile, expect nothing there. But if it is the ideal soil, something must come out.
14. “Not long afterwards, he began a tour of the cities and villages of Galilee[a] to announce the coming of the Kingdom of God…”
15. Which he prepared their hearts ahead of time. “Prepare your hearts for the kingdom of God is at hand.” Are we saying it today? The kingdom of God is with us now.
16. Even while He was there, the kingdom had arrived. He announced the arrival. He is here with you already.
17. THERE CAN NEVER BE A KINGDOM WITHOUT A KING. IT TAKES A KING TO ESTABLISH A KINGDOM. KINGDOM MEANS KING OVER HIS DOMAIN. IS IT NOT TRUE?
18. So you are talking about the forthcoming kingdom. which kingdom? Are you a beneficiary of that kingdom?
19. The Kingdom that is here is the Kingdom that will destroy the Roman Kingdom with the Word of His mouth.
20. Prophet Mohammed said, “When the Mahdi will appear, He will destroy the Dajjal, the anti-Christ, without firing a shot, but with the word of His mouth, by revealing who he [the anti-Christ] is.”
21. If he is not revealed, people will not avoid him. Who has ever revealed the man of sin since the world began except this Ministry? BEHOLD THE MAN OF SIN.
22. You might be his member. You might be provoked. As long as you are walking contrary to My message, that is your party. Whatever I am teaching is provocative to you because you are anti. You are anti.
23. Anything you are standing against, can you obey it? Better know this truth. Face facts! Face realities. You must know where you belong.
24. Where do you belong to? Do you belong to Christ or do you belong to the devil? Nobody should be on the fence in this matter. You can never be neutral on this matter.
25. “…and took his twelve disciples with him.” The twelve disciples were with Him also.“Some women went along…” Some women went along. Do you know their number?
26. “Some women went along from whom he had cast out demons or whom he had healed;…
27. Those who had already benefited from the ministry and who have showed their loyalty, faithfulness and allegiance. Did it say they went with their husbands? Was any married by the Apostles?
28. …among them were Mary Magdalene (Jesus had cast out seven demons from her), 3 Joanna, Chuza’s wife (Chuza was King Herod’s business manager…”
29. King Herod’s business Manager. A highly placed woman, not ordinary domestic house wife.
30. “Joanna, Chuza’s wife (Chuza was King Herod’s business manager and was in charge of his palace and domestic affairs), Susanna, and many others who were contributing…”
31. Susanna and many others. Did you hear their number? Many others, who were convinced. They were convicted. Nothing could stop them. This highly placed woman never considered marriage.
32. Watch all these women. The names of their husbands were not there. NOT EVEN ONE PERMITTED THE HUSBAND TO HINDER HER BECAUSE THEY HAD THEIR REVELATION. Hear what happened there.
33. “…Susanna, and many others who were contributing from their private means to the support of Jesus and his disciples.”
34. Have you heard it? To the support of the ministry, Jesus and His disciples. Not Apostles now, but disciples. There was not even one hindered. If there was one the husband hindered, we would have seen it.
35. If there was one the husband followed, we would have seen it. They had already set marriage aside, “Rubbish! To hell with it. What will I get if after enjoying the pleasures of marriage and I will go to hell. Will I enjoy marriage in hell?”
36. By revelation, their husbands never disturbed them. They were not willing to go, and they did not frustrate them. You might be calling them heathens. Who knows whether they will be sanctified by the faith of their wives? Who knows?
37. Check Lydia. Who knows the husband’s name? Do you know the name of the husband of Lydia? [Acts 16] What of Dorcas? [Acts 9] Phoebe? [Romans 16:1]Syntyche? Euodias? [Philippians 4:2] Who can mention the names of their husbands?
38. THAT IS WHY THERE IS NO GENDER IN WORSHIPPING GOD. AS FAR AS THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS CONCERNED, GENDER IS USELESS. NOTHING IS CONSIDERED BUT OBEDIENCE TO GOD’S WORD PERIOD!
39. GOD KNOWS WHAT HE IS DOING. IF GOD HAD ATTACHED ETERNAL LIFE TO MARRIAGE, EVERY MAN WOULD HAVE COME OUT WITH A WIFE FROM THE WOMB. HUMAN BEINGS SHOULD HAVE BEEN TWO, TWO.
40. You do not need to begin to go about looking for a wife or say you are looking for a companion. That is what marriage is all about. Is it not for companionship?
41. You are looking for companionship. You are looking for somebody who will alleviate your problem. A help! You are looking for help. Help, where? Material help. Social help. Sensual help. Finish! You are not looking for spiritual help.
42. If you want spiritual help, do you go to a woman? If a woman needs spiritual help, must she go to a man? She will go to Christ. You better know where we stand. Calls have started coming, opening My eyes more.
43. Not that I do not know. I had earlier announced it that I am giving you free tickets to go and put your families either in Christ or outside Christ, for you are now the dictator, the “Idi Amin”, the final authority, for there is nothing you will preach there now except headship, leadership, governorship. Authority is what you will establish. “If you do not believe it, you are going to hell.”
44. And the wife does not have that heart to say, “Let me go to hell. I do not believe this. This is not our Message. If you doubt me, report my stubbornness to THE SON OF MAN. Let Him speak on the matter and I will tell Him what and what I am hearing from you”.
45. Be very sure you have not arrogated to yourselves authorities you do not have over the flock of Christ which He has handed over to you. Be very sure you are not making yourselves Lords over God’s own heritage, for you must account for all your deeds before the Lord.
46. Instead of leading them to Christ, you are leading them away because you are not in Christ and you are not prepared to come into Christ.
47. So, let us be very, very careful from now. Nobody is in bondage. But if you put your fellow Brethren in bondage, God will put you into perpetual bondage. It is a sure banker. You cannot run away from it.
48. Preach the truth, and nothing but the truth. Be instant in season and out of season, encouraging them unto good works. What and what are the good works? Unto obedience to the truth. Period!
49. No intimidation. No harassment. No threat. No sanction. No inner cell. I say inner cell. We have outer cell and we have inner cell.
50. Nobody trains his children right by banning them from mixing with people outside. “Remain inside. I do not want to see you outside.” You are not giving them a good training.
51. Are you building another world for them? Teach them right and expose them. Let them go and test the teaching. If you teach them right, leave them alone. The teaching will help them to pattern their lives.
52. How long are you going to lock them inside? How are they going to develop as normal human beings inside that cage? It is better you open everywhere so that you will know whether they are believing you or not.
53. If I do not open the door, how would I know that My children now have the capacity to comport themselves after a godly sort? What is the essence of the teaching? Is it not to prepare them to face the world? That is all.
54. Jesus prepared them and set them out. So, I cannot prepare you and lock you in. I have done nothing. So, we better face the stark reality. WHY ARE YOU FOOLING YOURSELVES?
The Lord is here. How many believe that to be true? Shout Alleluia! Amen! Do not compromise. Our God is good. Our God is good! He has visited His people. I can see Him moving about. I am telling you the truth. I lie not in Christ. HE IS IN THE BRIDE. HE IS MOVING ABOUT GUIDING EVERYTHING, AND DICTATING EVERY MOVE. Shout Alleluia! Amen! Let us see Him. We are still moving. Amen. …. Let Me tell you one thing. This little Apostolic Ministry may stumble you. I AM NOT A PASTOR. Check your Bible. If there is a Man that can hold the Church from morning till the next morning, it is the Apostle, and the anointing can never leave Him because there is a Fountain supplying the water.
MIXED MULTITUDE PART 2; Preached on 3rd March 1993; Pg. 88 vs. 62 – 63 & Pg. 134 vs. 15
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GOD IS THE ONE DICTATING OUR JOURNEY [1]
Every Message we lift up, we see what God is saying there, “That I know many must be disappointed at the end, that they are disappointed already. Greatly, the Ministers and their families and you say, Amen.
2. Instead of saying, “Why must it be me?” You are saying Amen to something that is against you when you are still alive. You have already vowed to perish instead of believing the truth that will put you right with God. Be it known to you that there is an All-Seeing Eye watching you.
3. Last night, we saw what happened here. In anger, I switched off all My lines. And they have remained switched off till this morning and will remain switched off until I leave Umuoji. Then if you have the feeling that I am at Umuoji, you can trace Me down here if you have the means.
4. Otherwise, it will end in your reasoning and feelings and imagination. That is all. So that I will be at rest and at home with Myself and with He that is living in Me, doing the work for which I came here. I came here for a work.
5. I told My wife, “Look at the reason why we must be here. We are not going to eat. We are not going to drink. If we see, we eat and drink. Others might be coming for the purpose of eating and drinking. Some might be coming to sympathize with Brother Ojiakor. But let us move. We are going there to work.
6. You go there. oversee what is happening behind. Put them right before it will be too late. And I will be here to control the environment and every other thing. If there are laps, I will arrest them. I cannot arrest it from Nsugbe. Let Me be here.”
7. Yes! I shifted My operational base from Nsugbe to Umuoji. This is My operational base. And will remain operational base until I leave. In every operation, there must be a base. You do not stay too far and coordinate a battle.
8. Immediately Buhari was elected president, he moved the [military] operational base from Abuja to Bauchi, closest to Maiduguri. He moved it. You cannot be in Abuja and be coordinating Boko Haram there at Bornu State. No!
9. The operational base must be closest to the war front so that signals and instructions can be given in less than one second.
10. From there, you have your logistics and then draw out your war plan. All these counter-insurgent plans, they are drawn in Bauchi. And that is why from time to time, they will unleash mayhem in Bauchi state while trying to locate the operational base. Instead of Maimalari camp, they will be attacking Tafawa Belewa camp.
11. So I am here. For now, this is My operational base and all lines, off. The reason why I am here is best known to Me. But you can be the reason why I am here. I say you can be the reason why I am here.
12. If it is not for eating and drinking, why am I here? You might be the reason, especially those who passed the night with Me. Any other thing can follow. So, it is as clear as the day.
13. You see, if we believe that we are serving the true and living God, it shall be well with us. Who has a good voice here? Samuel, come. Let Me read this thing with you.
14. We are considering the message: BY THE COMMAND OF THE CLOUD THEY JOURNEYED. Preached by Apostle Peter Odoemena, THE SON OF MAN.
15. By the command of the Cloud, they journeyed. So the Cloud was dictating the movement. THE CLOUD IS A HUMAN BEING. THE CLOUD IS THE DEITY. AND THE DEITY IS IN A MAN.
16. If the Deity gives Me command, who will hear? If He talks to Me now, who will hear? The same way He tells Me about all of you and that is why you want to destroy members of your family accusing them of gossip when nobody is gossiping, but simply because you do not believe in the omnipresence of God.
17. You do not believe that God is the silent listener to every secret conversation. You do not believe that God said He is visiting your families, simply because He never sent a call to you.
18. When you hear word for word what is happening in your house, you begin to suspect members of your family who are innocent. You begin to accuse people who are better than you. A sure sign you do not want to be saved. You do not want the members of your family to be saved.
19. Instead of kneeling down and falling flat that God has captured you. Instead of making confessions to your family, “Brethren, I am sorry. All these years, I have been fooling you. This is the truth. Something happened along the way, God has arrested me”.
20. AT THE COMMAND OF THE CLOUD, THEY JOURNEYED, Preached on 17th January 1995. 1995! Were you in this Faith by 1995?At the Household of God Onitsha by Apostle Peter Odoemena, THE SON OF MAN.
21. GOD IS THE ONE DICTATING OUR JOURNEY: Who is the one dictating our journey? What if you do not believe in Him. Last Sunday you heard it. How can you be a part of the move, being led by somebody you do not trust, somebody you do not confide in, and somebody you do not depend on. You have a better idea, Better knowledge.
22. Why were they finding faults with the Messiah, Jesus the Christ? They believed they knew better. They felt he was deceiving them. They said they were above his deceit. It takes foolish people to believe you. Why then are you feeling angry.
23. How many years will you live in deceit? You allow your fellow human being to be deceiving you for 26 years? You are a fool of all fools. Why should I allow My fellow human being whom I know is nothing but a mere man to be deceiving me for 26 years?
24. To the unbelievers among us, God is a mere man like ourselves. He is fooling us. That is an unbeliever. That is a heathen. Do not mind Him. Do not mind Him. I do not believe that one. Which one do you believe? A believer believeth all things.
25. That one you have believed, who preached it. One Fountain, producing lies and producing truth. Who is doing this sifting and separation? You are the one.
26. And that is why you can never please God, for you are unstable in all your deeds. A double-minded [unstable-minded] fellow obtaineth nothing from the LORD. You do not talk of eternal life.
27. God is the one dictating our journey. In other words, Jesus was a 419 man, a fraudster. Judge, you must belong to one party, whether you like it or not.
28. You must be with a party that is with such a wonderful man or a party that is still ruling the world. You cannot get the counterfeit without the original Period!
29. You cannot get a duplicate or a photocopy of anything without the original. I am trying to say that the original existed in the Wilderness.
30. The counterfeit appeared because there was no man that could go there to settle the matter.
31. Moses was telling the people, “The first thing God told him was to build a tabernacle according to revealed pattern on the mountain.”
32. David, encouraging Solomon said, “When you are building, make sure you build according to revealed pattern in the Wilderness.”
33. WHEN YOU ARE PASTORING YOUR FAMILY, MAKE SURE YOU PASTOR ACCORDING TO THE REVEALED TRUTH WHICH IS HANDED OVER TO US FOR OUR SALVATION, AND NOT BUILDING UP YOUR OWN AFTER THE SILLY, USELESS IMAGINATIONS AND THOUGHTS OF YOUR OWN HEART, ONLY TO PRESENT YOUR DESIRE WHICH RUN CONTRARY TO THE PERFECT WILL OF GOD.
34. And you dare not make it public. You dare not even share it with fellow Brethren. You lock it up, for that is your personal belief.
35. A Brother prayed a prayer and concluded with, “Through our Lord and personal saviour.” I asked, “Who is your Lord and personal saviour? When did it start? Has He ever been the LORD over you for one minute? Have you for one day personalized Him to be your God or your Lord, talkless of Saviour?” I HAVE COME TO BRING FAITH TO THOSE WHO ARE WILLING TO OBEY.
36. David, encouraging Solomon said, “When you are building, make sure you build according to revealed pattern in the Wilderness.”
37. I never stepped into this house yesterday with a single sermon book. I only came in here with My diary and a little piece of paper I was considering.
38. I went to the library this morning after My meditations, dipped My hand into the shelves and brought out this one, not knowing what the topic is. I dipped My right hand the other side and brought out BRIDAL WATCH.
39. I came here and placed the two. While I was watching the two, my left hand picked this one and turned it up-side-down and placed this one on top, not knowing the contents. This is My own personal experience this morning.
40. Bro Sunday saw Me there. I called Him and gave him instruction on what they will do there. So, it is not that I picked this Message from My home, intending to come and talk.
41. I do not even have it in Onitsha. I do not have any Message related to that one; ’95. If I should have it, it must be in My Library at Mbaise, not at Nsugbe.
42. David instructed Solomon, “I am departing. God said I will not build this tabernacle for my hand is bloody. I have provided you with all the materials you need for this building. But while constructing it, be sure you make no mistake. I want a replica, a perfect picture of that masterpiece that was revealed to me in the wilderness which I have handed over to you.”
43. Moses handed over to Joshua. Have you heard it? Joshua handed over. And it continued until it got into the hand of David. David has now handed over to Solomon. A new tabernacle? The same old tabernacle.
44. I am talking to the Church. You know why I am here. And I have told you that we are no longer at Kadesh. I have pushed the Faith far beyond the reach of Kadesh Barnea.
45. Numbers 9:17 King James version. 17And when the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle, then after that the children of Israel journeyed: and in the place where the cloud abode, there the children of Israel pitched their tents.
46. In the place where the Cloud abode, there they did what? They pitched their tents. Who does not know where the Cloud is now? Do we have two Clouds? That is what put you into trouble.
47. “I am THE SON OF MAN.” Show us the evidence. Are you the only one God is using? God is also using Me. Show us the cloud that we may rally around you.
48. Since they were challenging Moses, how many provided evidence of the Cloud? When the LORD appeared, did He not indict them? “If you say I spoke to you young men, tell me when and declare what I told you. Did I not see all of you and I chose Moses?”
49. Why counterfeiting the Cloud? Why making your family believe that the Cloud is where the Cloud is not? Can you pastor them outside the Faith and expect the Cloud to vindicate it? The Cloud will only be there if it is preached unadulterated.
50. Why are you adulterating and at the same time giving them the impression that the Cloud is there? Telling lies against the Almighty God. Incurring the greatest wrath among yourselves.
51. Don’t you know it is better to keep quiet, say what you want to say in your family than to say that the presence of God is there, just to instill unnecessary fear into them, making them to believe that God is with them when God is not there. And you know what you are doing.
52. That is why, in the Book of Revelation, it said, “I know you, and I have seen all your works and all your doings.”
53. He said, “In the day I will visit you with your doings, your hands will tremble and your hearts must surely faint.” Your hands must tremble. Your hearts must surely faint.
54. Attributing to God things that do not belong to God. Saying your mind and attributing it to God, only to put all that are around you into perpetual bondage and slavery, when Christ has delivered us from slavery.
55. We are no longer slaves. We are now free men guided by the law of liberty meant for free men so that we worship God with ease; worship God with joy; worship Him in love, and not as a duty. Not as a duty.
56. How can anybody please God with serving Him as duty? Nothing is as boring as duty.
In My family, I gather them, not like Job. Job was gathering His Children peradventure they have cursed God. It is not so with My family. I gather them to tell them that they are a part of My Ministry. They are partakers of My Ministry – That is the Church where I am the Overseer. …. I am saying that the seed of the fruit is germinating, because I am an able Minister of the New Testament. I am not Eli. I am not David. I am not Moses, but some may like to go after such people. It is not for Me. What I am holding has power enough. What I am holding is not weak. I am holding a spiritual Law, not a carnal Law. What I am holding is profitable and not unprofitable. …. God is in the midst of His people, if you are tempted to leave this Church you are a cursed person……
FOLLOW ME AS I FOLLOW HIM (THE CLOUD); Preached in the year 1993; Pg. 12 vs. 14, Pg. 33 vs. 42 – 43 & Pg. 78 vs. 32
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GOD IS THE ONE DICTATING OUR JOURNEY [2]
In the place where the pillar of Cloud abode, the Pillar of Cloud is the presence of the Almighty God among His people.
2. When we preach about the Pillar of Cloud, it sounds as if everybody saw it. No! The Bible said that it was only Moses that saw Him.
3. As at this time, the Photograph has not been taken o. The photograph was in 1996. Look at when the Message went forth. It was after these teachings, FOLLOW THE CLOUD and everything that God now invited you to come and see Him.
4. First He came, moved in our midst. We heard His footsteps in the day, but we could not see Him. He then said, “Next Sunday, come with camera. That Man who moved everywhere, we were hearing the footsteps, we will see Him and that will banish our unbelief.”
5. You must know where you are. We are not here to fake anything. What does it profit us to begin to fake? This is what makes us a different people from amongst all the people on earth.
6. That is what makes us “ECCLESIA”: A CALLED OUT PEOPLE, SEPARATED UNTO GOD. He came and possessed us. We became His purchased possession, for unto us, God has appeared to take for Himself a people. Did he not see all other people?
7. I told you, “It will be better that you were not born here on earth than to deceive any of these little ones who have believed in God and have developed very strong faith. Then you come to them with deceit, envy and carnal jealousy [of both the flesh and the things of this world] and pull the person away from the Faith. The person who has a stone tied to his neck and thrown into the sea is better than you on the day of God’s visitation.” [Matthew 18:6]
8. I am here already. I am not going back. I remain calling you My friends until that great day when you will see another person and not Apostle Peter Odoemena. But you will only identify Him by the Voice.
9. When the Voice roars, you will kneel down and tremble because you must know the Voice, for the Voice has reached the whole ends of the earth. That is why, to impersonate this Voice is not easy. You can only make a false claim, but you cannot impersonate this Voice.
10. And to run away from doubt, of all preachers in the whole world, there is not one that has this Voice. There is not one that has the Voice of THE SON OF MAN.
11. I am not trying to say it for saying sake. Tune in your radios and televisions, listen to all preachers, both Pentecostals and otherwise. Any day you come across one that has a replica of My own Voice, tell Me who that man is. Worldwide, you cannot hear it.
12. It is a Voice that can never change. It can never change. From eternity to eternity, it will be this Voice, but every other thing will change. The Name will change. The appearance will change. Everything will change. The dressing will change, but that Voice can never change.
13. That is why people that heard it, who were with God, they recognized it immediately that the Voice is distinct. Very very distinct. It is authoritative and it does not shake. It is a focused Voice, come rain come shine.
14. Many of you that are with us can never know where we took off. The day I went to court because of this Message, all that were with us then, the Local Government court shook. The man said, “Never have I come across a man like this.”
15. The people that were invited to come and kill Me turned out to be My friends. They turned against the man who brought Me to the court, started calling Him liar and everything. They revolted against the man who brought Me to the court.
16. They later said I bribed the man. How can I bribe the man? The man that knew Me not. And I came with My walking stick and My dibia’s bag [native doctor’s bag]. You know the native doctor’s bag which I always took with Me.
17. It is only the person who knows Me that will know the bag. A bag a kicked and destroyed with My leg. If it stands on My way while preaching, I will kick the bag up, even with all its contents until the zips were destroyed and I was holding it like that. If I enter the vehicle, I will still be holding it. All I was known for were contained in that bag. A bag without a handle.
18. When the going gets tough, I will carry it placing My hands on it like that, with My rubber sandals. People thought I had gone mad. Today, I am a sensible fellow.
19. When we preach about the Pillar of Cloud, it sounds as if everybody saw it. No! The Bible said that it was only Moses that saw it.
20. Remember that God said, “I will go before you. If I show you the way to go, go.”
21. Where the problem lies, somebody telling you that he is expecting rapture today and tomorrow. We have not put on immortality yet. We are about to be glorified. Yes! I said we are about to be glorified.
22. There is no group here on earth outside the Body of Christ, the Bride, that is led by the Cloud. 1995. When the photograph had not been taken.
23. There is no group that can stand before the world and proclaim they are being led by the visible Pillar of Cloud. Amen!
24. As at that time. WHY ARE YOU FOOLING YOURSELVES? Produce your own cloud. At least, Pharaoh attempted something by bringing the Magicians to produce their snake.
25. But Moses dropped his own staff which swallowed all. When the staff of Moses swallowed all of them, Moses reached for the same snake. It became a staff in His hand.
26. So, both Pharaoh’s snakes, they emptied all of them in one. Moses put it inside His pocket.
27. When My Deity came and collected all your community deities and I carried all of them and put them in My own and continued My journey, why are you erecting fresh ones. Why trying to rebuild something I had already carried away?
28. It is because you do not want to abandon it. Christ has taken all these things away. Why are you rebuilding them?
29. WHY ARE YOU FOOLING YOURSELVES BY REBUILDING A BUILDING THAT WAS PULLED DOWN BY CHRIST?
30. A condemned way of life you are reenacting again. What are you trying to make your family members to believe about God? Instead of helping them to know who God is, you are leading them away from God. Why? What you have is what you are offering. WHY ARE YOU FOOLING YOURSELVES?
31. There is no group that can come and proclaim that they are not following a man, for the Almighty God has tabernacled amongst us, and He is the One leading us in this journey.
32. The Almighty God has tabernacle amongst us and He is the One leading us in this journey from the very beginning. Look at all of you milling around Me. Men, Men, Men, Men, Men. Your wives are where they are supposed to be.
33. It is believed that what you are gathering here will go to your families, but you will hide it away. You cannot give them this truth.
34. Rather, you try to concoct something, fake something, inject something into it, all aimed at indoctrinating them that you may have whatever you want to achieve.
35. Tell Me what you will achieve that you will not regret. Whatever you are achieving outside Christ, you must regret it. Pay back. I say, pay back. God must pay you back in your own coins. He will not pay you in My own. He must surely pay you in your own very coins.
36. But the Almighty God has tabernacle among us, and He is the one leading us in this journey. When the Voice came down from Heaven, we were there.
37. We were here. All the old timers who were not there in 1995, we were there. Look at Bro Ben’s teeth. It is this Faith. He never fought. Anytime he sees it and the wife sees it, they will remember what happened at the Camp Meeting. What happened at the Camp meeting will be remembered.
38. When the Voice came down from Heaven, we were here. He said, “As I have been with Moses in the Wilderness, so have I chosen My Servant from amongst you. I have made Him My Angel in your midst. I, the LORD, am with Him.”
39. Moses found Himself in Pharaoh’s house where he grew up. He committed murder in the kingdom because he decided to forfeit the pleasure in the hearts of men….
40. Young men here, look for this Message. 1995. I want to have the tape. Let Me produce it by Myself. It is one of those ancient Messages. Help Me look for the original tape here.
41. Are you hearing what I am saying? Good! After you will give them the date. It is there. Find it out for Me so that I will give it to someone that will transcribe it for Me. All of you need it. Of all these people that are here, many do not have it. I wonder whether you heard it before.
42. He committed murder in the kingdom because he decided to forfeit the pleasure in the hearts of men, so as to identify with his own people.
43. He ran to the Wilderness. A supernatural occurrence took place there. I believe that Moses could not have led the people of Israel to Canaan because he did not know the way.
44. But the LORD said, “I will go before you. I am presenting you before My people as God.” In other words, if they must leave, they must acknowledge you as God.
45. Have you heard it? All those people that were fooling themselves in the Wilderness, did they acknowledge Him as their God? Even when they saw great miracles, signs and wonders which God wroth by His hands. Even when God parted the Red Sea.
46. The people that rebelled and disagreed with him in the Wilderness were the people that crossed the Red Sea. They never crossed the Red Sea with a boat. They never swam across. They forgot all.
47. This is because, from the very beginning, they never believed in Him, for every man was wishing that he [himself] could be the leader. Why must it be Moses?
48. YOU CANNOT BE BELIEVING AND QUERYING AT THE SAME TIME. HOW CAN YOU QUERY SOMETHING YOU DO NOT KNOW? YOU QUERY SOMETHING THAT YOU ARE VERY CONVERSANT WITH. YOU CAN ONLY QUERY THAT WHICH YOU KNOW VERY WELL AND NOT SOMETHING YOU DO NOT KNOW AT ALL.
49. That road which you have not gone before, your responsibility is to keep on following. Brethren see where we are now. Oh! Praise be to God. Is this how this city is. The city is very beautiful. Tomorrow, we are leaving. Tomorrow morning, we shall leave.
50. When others have left, you will now begin to complain that you are having pains in your legs. Why must we leave this city that is so beautiful and with plenty of food. In short, this journey we are making with this man, there are opportunities in this land. There are opportunities in this land.
51. Before you know it, words have become spirits. Others will share the same views with you. They will say, “If there are people that will follow Him, let them go. If it means dying, let us die here. Who will abandon a city like this?”
52. Was it not what killed John Mark, for which cause he deceived Barnabas? Were they not Ministers? Were they not Apostles? Be very careful everybody. WHY FOOLING YOURSELVES?
53. In other words, if they must leave they must acknowledge Him as God.
54. If God is God, let us worship Him. if we have adjudged Him to be a mere man like us, let us vacate immediately. The moment you discover that you are being fooled, leave.
55. Was anybody forced to come? The moment you find out that you are being defrauded and deceived, is it not for you to carry your bag and get out?
56. If you are then asked to come back, you will then know that you are important. How many people left and we were asked to go and call them back or ask him why he wants to go away? Reasonable people were not asked, not to talk of useless fellows.
57. Of all the prominent and notable people in the city, nobody even asked why they were leaving or “Why are you trying to leave.” Nobody!
58. That is why we are not building on any human being. We know where we are standing. Even if it is one person left, the person knows where he is standing.
59. In other words, if they must leave, they must acknowledge Him as God. I will confirm your Word among them. I will give you, even your brother Aaron as your prophet.
60. I will speak to you. You will speak to Aaron. Aaron will then speak to the people.
61. Third party! You see, that is third party. But in these last days, He speaks to us face to face, mouth to mouth, fulfilling Hebrews 1. Who is He using? THE SON OF MAN.
62. The same Hebrews 2 asking, “Who is THIS SON OF MAN that you have decided to make Him everything you are, surrendered all, including the salvation of man, judgment of man into the hands of this same Man.” [Hebrews 2:6 – 8]
63. It is no more a situation where I tell Moses, Moses will tell Aaron and Aaron will tell the people. Do I still trace you to communicate to you through dreams? Or do you want Me to raise a prophet that will come and tell you, “Thus saith the LORD.”
64. The LORD is now talking to you. He is seeing you and He talks to you daily according to the prevailing conditions around you.
65. If they must leave, they must harken to the voice of Moses. Aaron will not speak until he hears from Moses. Without Moses, there was no Aaron. Get Me right. The Lord was going before Moses and Moses was going before the people.
66. Today, we have seen the Pillar of Cloud. Today! 1995! Yet, it was not photographed. Only people who had the gift of vision saw it. The only person that is seeing Him every day remains THE SON OF MAN, who has kept on telling us His position whether it be in His front or at His back.
67. At a time, He will declare, “I am now encircled.” Before you know it, He will turn round and then shake Himself, wearing it like a cloth.
68. He said, “One of these days, you will see Who this Cloud will reveal. One of these days, you will see, for the Cloud is going to reveal a Man.”
69. As we journeyed along, God honoured that Word He spoke through the mouth of THE SON OF MAN. God revealed the Cloud around a Man that all will see.
70. The Lord was going before Moses and Moses was going before the people. Today we have seen the Pillar of Cloud and we shall see where that Cloud tabernacles.
71. We shall see what? Where the Cloud tabernacles. Where the Cloud will rest. The Tent. The Tent of God. You will see the Mountain. We will see the dwelling place where this Cloud will finally rest. The Could will enter into the Tent and abode.
72. We will see. Everybody is claiming that he is the one, but He said, “Do not claim. Nobody directs God. Rather, God directs us.” When the Cloud settled, everybody was shocked and were holding his or her jaw. The Cloud tabernacled where they least expected.
73. Each time Moses lifted up his eyes towards the sky, He saw the Cloud. You were all there. How many people raised their hands and lifted their eyes up. You did not see any other person and you saw oil flowing down from His hands. It was not sweat.
74. All whose faces were touched with that hand felt the warmth and also saw the oil, until the whole crowd was anointed. No single bottle. No bottle! Nothing nothing. Just anoint My hand for the healing of your people, and all eyes saw it clearly.
75. That is why these people that saw these things vowed a vow, “We will never denominate. We will never go into idolatry, until the last elder who witnessed these things will be put to death.”
76. But as long as there is one left, we will never go into idolatry. That is why when the last man died, Israel went a whoring after other gods.
77. That is why we say according to an Igbo adage that the vulture said that the elders that know it should not all die, lest the children with kill it and eat thinking they are eating a kite. That the vulture resembles a kite, is it a kite?
78. That is why God is not happy with these ancient men who saw the glory of God. When their mates have died; Some left the faith. They are still there and they are still shaking. I do not know why you are shaking.
79. Brethren, when this Message went forth, the photograph of the Pillar of Cloud had not been taken. And if not for the photograph, there was no other way you could have seen Him with your physical eyes.
80. Be it know to you that before the photograph was taken, we were privileged to have three witnesses. Ernest Agada, Bishop Ebenezer, Charles Nwobiara. And as they described, so the whole thing appeared. There was never a time God deceived us at all. Never!
81. You are the one misleading your family and also misleading your conscience because you want to make yourself a God which you are not. You are not a God until the Word of God has come to you and settled in you. Then, you become God.
82. And God in you cannot contradict Himself. God in Me will always echo Amen to the revealed truth. God cannot be against God. How can God call God a liar? A deceiver? No way! It will never happen till eternity. It will take another spirit.
83. Each time Moses lifted up his head towards the sky, He saw the Cloud. Anywhere the Pillar of Cloud stopped, Moses will also stop there and say, “My people! My Brethren, we will stop here. We can pitch tent for a day or two. Let us watch.”
84. And then the Pillar of Cloud will move either by day or by night without informing anybody. When it moves, Moses will say, “Brethren, gentlemen and ladies, come on! Let us go!” And their journey will continue.
85. Pastor Thomas! Call Pastor Chizoba. Tell him to search for this Message immediately. Do not bother looking for it in the library. Let Me search for it in the system. What we are seeing is not typographical error and not printing error.
86. I have gotten all of them. Do you know what we have bought so far? We have equipped that place beyond your imagination. Don’t you know about it?
87. We now bought a standard hard disk of 360 gigabyte capacity. We bought two of it and we are using them as backup. With them, we have now retrieved all the Messages from Bro Nnamdi and stored them there.
88. So we do not need to be referring to him. Whatever we need, we have a library soft copy where we can get it immediately and do what we want to do with it.
89. When it moves, Moses will say, “Brethren, gentlemen and ladies, come on! Let us go!” And their journey will continue.
90. At a point in time, the Pillar of Cloud will halt for days, weeks months or even years. No man will make a step forward.
91. Did you hear what was talking to him? Since you know the way, go now! Yes! The Cloud halted and Moses also stood still. He never moved. Does he know anywhere? Any little step forward, where is he going? Has He ever gone that way before? He was born and brought up in Egypt. He does not know where Canaan is. He does not know the way to Canaan.
92. He that promised him [Moses] told him, “I am coming to lead you in the path you will go. Keep your eyes on Me. Let your people keep their eyes on you and we will move.”
93. If the Cloud stops, Moses can never command it to move. Neither can he hurry the Cloud. Can you hasten God? IF YOU DO NOT HAVE THE REVELATION OF WHO IS LEADING, YOU ARE LOST.
94. Are you looking at Brother Peter Odoemena? Has He gone this way before? How old is He? The path which no man had ever trod, which even your forefathers had not gone before, for they were going to church. Nobody had ever gone this way before.
95. Can you tell the Cloud to hurry up and move? Common let us go. Moses dared not open his mouth. The congregation cannot murmur or complain because they have seen that what is leading is supernatural. Moreso, when it offers them shed in the day and light in the night. It became clear.